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Optimal transport is a framework that facilitates the most efficient allocation of a limited amount of resources. However, the most efficient allocation scheme does not necessarily preserve the most fairness. In this paper, we establish a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen

This paper links matching markets with aligned preferences to optimal transport theory. We show that stability, efficiency, and fairness emerge as solutions to a parametric family of optimal transport problems. The parameter reflects…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-03-17 Federico Echenique , Joseph Root , Fedor Sandomirskiy

We consider ride-sharing networks served byhuman-driven vehicles and autonomous vehicles. First, wepropose a novel model for ride-sharing in this mixed autonomysetting for a multi-location network in which the platformsets prices for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Qinshuang Wei , Jorge Alberto Rodriguez , Ramtin Pedarsani , Samuel Coogan

This paper proposes an optimal allocation problem with ramified transport technology in a spatial economy. Ramified transportation is used to model the transport economy of scale in group transportation observed widely in both nature and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Qinglan Xia , Shaofeng Xu

Ride-sharing or vehicle-pooling allows commuters to team up spontaneously for transportation cost sharing. This has become a popular trend in the emerging paradigm of sharing economy. One crucial component to support effective ride-sharing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Sid Chi-Kin Chau , Shuning Shen , Yue Zhou

This paper studies the problem of allocating tasks from different customers to vehicles in mobility platforms, which are used for applications like food and package delivery, ridesharing, and mobile sensing. A mobility platform should…

Fundamental laws of human mobility have been extensively studied, yet we are still lacking a comprehensive understanding of the mobility patterns of sharing conveyances. Since travellers would highly probably no longer possess their own…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-16 Ruiqi Li , Ankang Luo , Fan Shang , Linyuan Lv , Jingfang Fan , Gang Lu , Liming Pan , Lixin Tian , H. Eugene Stanley

In this paper we study rebalancing strategies for a mobility-on-demand urban transportation system blending customer-driven vehicles with a taxi service. In our system, a customer arrives at one of many designated stations and is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-15 Stephen L. Smith , Marco Pavone , Mac Schwager , Emilio Frazzoli , Daniela Rus

The evolution of existing transportation systems,mainly driven by urbanization and increased availability of mobility options, such as private, profit-maximizing ride-hailing companies, calls for tools to reason about their design and…

How to form groups in a mobility system that offers shared rides, and how to split the costs within the travellers of a group, are non-trivial tasks, as two objectives conflict: 1) minimising the total costs of the system, and 2) making…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Andres Fielbaum , Rafal Kucharski , Oded Cats , Javier Alonso-Mora

Recommending routes by their probability of having a rider has long been the goal of conventional route recommendation systems. While this maximizes the platform-specific criteria of efficiency, it results in sub-optimal outcomes with the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Aqsa Ashraf Makhdomi , Iqra Altaf Gillani

Shared mobility redefines urban transportation, offering economic and environmental benefits by reducing pollution and urban congestion. However, in the post-pandemic era, the shared mobility sector is grappling with a crisis of trust,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Tian Siyuan , Dai Renjie , Wang Junhao , He Zhengxiao

We model and study the problem of assigning traffic in an urban road network infrastructure. In our model, each driver submits their intended destination and is assigned a route to follow that minimizes the social cost (i.e., travel…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Paolo Serafino , Carmine Ventre , Long Tran-Thanh , Jie Zhang , Bo An , Nick Jennings

Tradable mobility credit (TMC) schemes are an approach to travel demand management that have received significant attention in recent years. This paper proposes and analyzes alternative market models for a TMC system -- focusing on market…

Designing efficient car parking mechanisms that can be potentially integrated into future intelligent transportation systems is of crucial importance. Usually, the related design problems are combinatorial and the worst-case complexity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-27 Elisabetta Alfonsetti , Pradeep Chathuranga Weeraddana , Carlo Fischione

Car sharing is one of the key elements of a Mobility-on-Demand system, but it still suffers from several shortcomings, the most significant of which is the fleet unbalance during the day. What is typically observed in car sharing systems,…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Chiara Boldrini , Raffaele Bruno

For drivers in ride-hailing companies, allocation within the city is paramount to get matched with rides. This decision depends on many factors, where some of them (such as demand and allocation of others) are unknown for the drivers, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Gianfranco Liberona , David Salas , Léonard von Niederhäusern

Vehicle-sharing systems -- such as bike-, car-, or motorcycle-sharing systems -- have become increasingly popular in big cities in recent years. On the one hand, they provide a cheaper and environmentally friendlier means of transportation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Holger Billhardt , Alberto Fernández , Sascha Ossowski

Electric car-sharing systems are pivotal for sustainable urban mobility, but their strategic design is complicated by operational constraints, particularly those arising from the charging needs of electric vehicles. The success of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Jue Zhou , Zoha Sherkat-Masoumi , Merve Bodur

Emerging mobility systems such as connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) provide the most intriguing opportunity for more accessible, safe, and efficient transportation. CAVs are expected to significantly improve safety by eliminating the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Ioannis Vasileios Chremos , Andreas A. Malikopoulos